[CentOS] Optimum Block Size to use

Wed Aug 19 15:49:36 UTC 2015
Jatin Davey <jashokda at cisco.com>

On 8/19/2015 1:54 PM, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Jatin Davey wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> We use CentOS 6.6 for our application. I have profiled the 
>> application and find that we have a heavy requirement in terms of 
>> Disk writes. On an average when our application operates at a certain 
>> load i can observe that the disk writes / second is around 2 Mbps 
>> (Average).
>
> Initial thought is, do you really care?  2Mbps is peanuts, so 
> personally I'd
> leave everything at the defaults.  There's really no need to optimise
> everything.
>
> Obviously the exact type of writes is important (lots of small writes 
> written
> and flushed vs fewer big unsynced writes), so you'd want to poke it with
> iostat to see what kind of writes you're talking about.
[Jatin]
The application workload is lot of small writes written and flushed.
>
> jh
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Thanks
Jatin